EDUCATION
Graz University of Technology, Austria, Chemical Engineering DI, 1991, highest distinction
Graz University of Technology, Austria Chemical Engineering Ph.D., 1995, highest distinction
University of Houston, Houston, TX Chemical Engineering Post Doc, 1/96 - 6/98

POSITIONS
Assistant Professor, Rutgers University, USA, 7/98-6/03
Tenured Professor, Rutgers University, USA, 7/03-present
Director of the Rutgers Catalyst Consortium, Rutgers University, USA, 2003-2006
Marie Curie Chair of the European Union, 2005-2008
Professor of Pharmaceutical and Process Engineering, 2005-present
Head of the Institute for Process Engineering, TU Graz, 2006-present
Scientific Director of the Research Center for Pharmaceutical Engineering, 2008-present

AWARDS AND HONORS
• Erwin Schrödinger Scholarship (Austrian Science Foundation, FWF), 1995
• Distinguished Scholarship from the Austrian Industrial Society, 1995
• Best applied paper in AIChE Journal (SWS), 1999
• Bristol-Myers Squibb Young Faculty Development Award, 1999
• DuPont Young Professor Award, 2000
• North American Mixing Forum Award, 2000
• NSF CAREER Award, 2001
• Arthur and Dorothy Sigel Lecturer, Michigan Tech, 2001
• Early Tenure, 2003
• Offer Institute Head and Professor at the University Stuttgart, 2003
• Best theoretical paper in AIChE Journal (SWS), 2006
• EU Marie Curie Chair, 2005
• Selected University Councelor of Vienna University of Technology

EDUCATION AND TEACHING
• Ph.D. training with Prof. Gernot Staudinger, TU Graz
• Postdoctoral training with Prof. Dan Luss, University of Houston
• Directed research (1998 to 2008):
         6 PhD degrees in progress, 10 PhDs graduated
         2 past post-doctoral trainees (Dr. Lekhal, Dr. Vassiliev)
         4 current post-doctoral trainees (Dr. Schider, Dr. Kutschera, Dr. Gruber-Wölfler)
         40+ undergraduate & diploma thesis
         20+ high school students
• Courses taught (1998 to 2008): Fluid Mechanics (undergrad.), Process Engineering Lab (undergrad.), Reaction Engineering (grad.), Industrial Chemistry of Drugs and Fine Chemicals (grad.), Advanced Numerical Methods (grad.), Biochemical Engineering (undergrad.), Laboratory (undergrad and grad), Research (grad), Pharmaceutical Engineering I+II (undergrad+grad), Particle Technology I+II (undergrad + grad)

COLLABORATORS
Prof. Alan Goldman (Rutgers, Chemie), Dr. Tiberiu M. Leib (DuPont), Prof. Michael P. Harold (Univ of Houston), Prof. Dan Luss (U. of Houston), Prof. Gretar Tryggvason (Worcester Polytechnical Institute), Dr. San Kiang (Bristol-Myers Squibb), Dr. Yongkui Sun (Merck and Company), Prof. Harald Raupenstrauch (TU), Prof. Yves Chabal (Rutgers, Chemistry and Physics), Prof. Karsten Krogh-Jespersen (Rutgers), Dr. Michael Schlueter (Univ. Bremen), Prof. Marianthi Ierapetritou (Rutgers), Prof. Ben Glasser (Rutgers), Prof. Fernando Muzzio (Rutgers), Prof. Zimmer (KFU), Prof. Brenn (TU Graz)

1. Khinast J., Staudinger G., (1995), Dynamic Simulation of Reacting Particles, Scientific Computing I, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg
2. Aichinger, G., Brunner, C., Khinast, J., Seebauer, (1995), Kinetic Studies on Low Temperature, Dry Flue Gas Desulphurization, Coal Sci. & Techn. 12, p.124
3. Khinast J. Krammer G.F., Brunner Ch., (1996), Decomposition of Limestone: the Influence of CO2 and Particle Size on the Reaction Rate, Chem. Eng. Sci. 51, 623
4. Krammer G.F., Khinast J., Staudinger, (1997), Reaction of Ca(OH)2 with SO2 at low Temperature, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res, 36, p.1410-1418
5. Khinast J., Brunner, Ch.,. Aichinger, G., Staudinger, G, (1995), Reactions During Low Temperature: Dry Flow Gas Desulphurization, SO2-Control
6. Somani M., Viswanath S., Khinast J., Luss D., (1997), Maximum Temperature in a Reverse-Flow Reactor with two independent reactions, Chem. Eng Sci. 52, 15, p.2483-2495
7. Khinast, J., Luss, D., (1997), Mapping Regions with Different Bifurcation Diagrams of a Reverse Flow Reactor, AIChEJ., 43, 8, p.2034-2047
8. Khinast, J., Luss, D., Harold, M.P, Ostermaier, J.J., McGill R., (1998), Continuously Stirred Decanting Reactor - Operation and Stability Considerations, AIChEJ., 44, 2
9. Khinast, J., Gurumoorthy, A., Luss, D., (1998), Complex Dynamic Features of a Cooled Reverse-Flow Reactor, AIChEJ., 44,5, p.1128
10. Khinast, J., Luss, D, Leib T.M., Harold, M.P., (1998), Boiling slurry reactor: Feasible operation and stability, AIChEJ. 44, 8, p.1868
11. Luss, D. and J. Khinast (1999), Efficient Bifurcation Analysis of Forced Periodic Processes, Scient. Comp. Chem. Eng., Springer Verlag,Berlin
12. Khinast, J. (1999), Numerical Bifurcation Analysis of Chemical Reactor Models of High Dimension, Proc. Scient. Comp. Chem. Eng., Springer Verlag,Berlin
13. Khinast, J., Jeong, Y.O., Luss, D., (1999), Dependence of Cooled Reverse-Flow Reactor Dynamics on Reactor Model, AIChEJ., 45, 2, 299
14. Khinast, J., Luss, D, Leib T.M., Harold, M.P., (1999), Impact of an Undesired Reaction on a Boiling Slurry Reactor", Chem. Eng. Sci., 54, 2295
15. Khinast, J., Luss, D, Leib T.M., Harold, M.P., (1999), The Adiabatic Boiling Slurry Reactor: Influence of Axial Dispersion, Chem. Eng. Sci. 54, 5021
16. J. Khinast and V. Balakotaiah, “Numerical Bifurcation Analysis of Chemical Reactor Models of High Dimension,” p. 1-37, in Numerical Methods for Bifurcation Problems and Large-Scale Dynamical Systems, E. Doedel and L.S. Tuckerman (eds.), Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2000
17. Khinast, J. and D. Luss, (2000), Efficient Bifurcation Analysis of Periodically-Forced Distributed Parameter Systems, Comp. Chem. Eng. 24, 139
18. Khinast, J.G. (2000), Teaching Kinetics, Catalysis, and Reactor Design - A Parallel Approach, Chem. Eng. in the New Millennium (R.P. Hesketh, C.S. Howat, D.S. Dixon, eds.) AIChE, p.133-140
19. Garg, R., Luss, D., and J. G. Khinast, (2000), Dynamic and Steady-State Features of a Cooled Countercurrent Flow Reactor, AIChEJ. 46 (10), 2030
20. Lekhal, A., Glasser, B., Khinast J.G., (2001), Impact of Drying on Catalyst Profile of supported Impregnation Catalysts, Chem Eng. Sci. 56 (15), 4473-4487
21. Khinast, J.G. (2001), Impact of 2-D Bubble Dynamics on the Selectivity of Fast Gas-Liquid Reactions, AIChE J. 47(10), 2304-2319.
22. Lekhal, A+., Khinast J.G., Glasser, B., (2001), Predicting the Effect of Drying on Supported Coimpregnation Catalysts, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 40, 3989-3999
23. Ierapertitou, M., and J. G. Khinast, (2002), A Novel Sampling Technique for Efficient Stability Analysis of Chemical Reactors, AIChEJ. (48), 187-192
24. Wurzenberger J.C., Wallner S., Raupenstrauch H., and J. G. Khinast, (2002) Thermal Conversion of Biomass: Comprehensive Reactor and Particle Modeling, AIChE J (48), p. 2398-2411.
25. Bindal, A., Khinast, J.G., Ierapetritou, M.G., (2003) Adaptive Multiscale Solution of Dynamical Systems in Chemical Processes using Wavelets, Comp & Chem. Eng. 27, 131-141
26. Khinast J.G., Bauer A., Bolz D. and A. Panarello, (2003), Mass Transfer Enhancement by Static Mixers in a Wall-Coated Catalytic Reactor, Chem. Eng. Sci. 58, 6, p1063-1070, 2003
27. Lekhal, A., Girard, K., Brown, M., Kiang, S., Glasser B. and J.G. Khinast, (2003) Impact of Agitated Drying on Crystal morphology: KCl-water System, Powder Technology, 119-130
28. Raffensberger J., Koynov A., Glasser B. and J.G. Khinast, Influence of Particle Properties on the Yield and Selectivity of Fast Heterogeneously Catalyzed Gas-Liquid Reactions, (2003) International Journal of Reaction Engineering, A15
29. Panarello, A. and J.G. Khinast (2003), Synthesis of a novel ethylene-bis(tetrahydroindenyl) ligand containing a functionalized four-carbon tether for heterogenizing onto solid supports, Tetrahedron Letters, 44, 4095-4098
30. Koynov, A. and J.G. Khinast (2003), Yield and Selectivity of Reactions in Bubble Column Reactors Operating in Different Flow Regimes", AIChEJ.
31. Khinast, J.G., A. Koynov, and T.M. Leib, (2003), Reactive Mass Transfer at Gas-Liquid Interfaces: Impact of Micro-Scale Fluid Dynamics on Yield and Selectivity of Liquid-phase Cyclohexane Oxidation, Chem. Eng. Sci., 58, 3961-3971
32. Lekhal A., Girard K. P., Brown, M. A., Kiang S. , Khinast J.G. and B. J. Glasser, (2004), The Effect of Agitated Drying on Crystal Morphology of L-Threonine, Intl. J. of Pharmaceutics, 270, 263-277
33. Lee, K.Y., J.J-Y. Lee J., R. Stencel and J.G. Khinast, (2004) Photo-chemical Remediation of Tetrachloroethylene: Reactor Design, Construction, and Preliminary Results, J. of Env. Eng., ASCE 130, 1, 100
34. Lekhal A., Glasser B.J. and J. G. Khinast (2004), Influence of pH and ionic strength on the Activity Profile of Impregnation Catalysts, Chem. Eng. Sci. 59, 1063-1077
35. Lee K.Y., Lee J.Y. and J.G. Khinast, (2004) Photochemical destruction of PCE and TCE from the exhaust of a groundwater remediation air-stripper, Journal of Hazardous Materials, p.1265
36. Koynov, A. and J.G. Khinast (2004), Effects of hydrodynamics and Lagrangian Transport on Chemically Reacting Bubble Flows, Chem. Eng. Sci. 59(18) 3907-3927
37. affensberger J., Koynov A., Glasser B. and J.G. Khinast, (2004) Analysis of Heterogeneously Catalyzed Reactions Close to the Gas-Liquid Interface of Bubbles, AIChE J.51 (5) p.1482-1496
38. Wang, J. and J.G. Khinast (2004), Analysis of the Complex Nonlinear Behavior of Reacting Bubbly Flows, Chem. Eng. Sci., 59, 5575-5585
39. Conway S.L., Lekhal A., Khinast J.G., and Benjamin J. Glasser, (2005), Granular flow and Segregation in A four-bladed mixer, Chem. Eng. Sci. 60, 7091-7107
40. Vassylyev O., Panarello A. and J.G. Khinast, (2005) Enantioselective Hydrogenations with Chiral Titanocenes, Molecules, 10, 518–550
41. Panarello, A., Vassylyev, O. and J.G. Khinast, (2005), Preparation of Derivatized Ethylene-bis-(indenyl) Ligands via homogeneous Suzuki Couplings on Pd, Tetrahedron Letters, 46, 1353-1356
42. A. Lekhal, B. Glasser and J. Khinast (2005) Drying of supported catalysts, chapter in Advances in Catalyst Preparation, (ed. Richards, R.), Marcel Dekker
43. Panarello, A., Vassylyev O. and J. G. Khinast, (2005) Use of Oxirane Ring-Opening Reactions for Synthesis of Ethylene-bis(indenyl) Ligands Containing Alkene Tethers, SynLett 5, p.797-800
44. Koynov, A., Tryggvason G. and J.G. Khinast (2005), Mass Transfer and Chemical Reactions in Bubble Swarms with Dynamic Interfaces, AIChE J. 51 10, 2786-2800
45. G. Viswanathan, A. Bindal, J. Khinast and D. Luss, (2005), Stationary transversal hot zones in adiabatic packed bed reactors, AIChEJ. 51, 11, 3028-3038
46. Langner, A., Panarello, A., Rivillon, S., Vassylyev, O., Khinast, J.G. and Y.J. Chabal, (2005), Controlled Silicon Surface Functionalization by Alkene Hydrosilylation, JACS 127, 37, 12798 – 12799
47. Vassylyev, O., Chen, J.-S., Panarello A., and J. G. Khinast (2005), Catalytic Properties of Several Supported Pd(II) Complexes for Suzuki Coupling Reactions, Tetrahedron Letters 46, 40, 6865-6869
48. Khinast, J.G., (2005), Mikromischer in Deformierbaren Blasenschwaermen, Chemie Ingenieur Technik, 77, 11, p 1750-1763
49. Koynov A., and J.G. Khinast, (2005), Micromixing in Bubble Swarms, Chemical Engineering and Technology 77, p.13-23.
50. Vassylyev, O., Hall, G. and J.G. Khinast, (2006), Modification of Zeolite Surfaces by Grignard Reagent, J. Porous Materials 13, 1, p.5-11
51. Lekhal A., Conway S., Glasser B.J. and J.G. Khinast (2006), Characterization of Granular Flow of Wet Solids in a Bladed Mixer, AIChEJ. 52, 8, 2757-2766
52. Koynov, G. Tryggvason, M. Schlüter, and J. G. Khinast. "Mass Transfer and Chemical Reactions in Reactive Deformable Bubble Swarms." Applied Physics Letters 88 (2006), 134102
53. Panarello, A., Vassylyev, O. and J.G. Khinast, (2006), Efficient Surface Functionalization of Zeolites via Esterification, J. of Microporous and Mesoporous Materials 92 (1-3,) 101-108
54. Raffensberger, J., Glasser, B.J. and Khinast, J.G., Effect of Droplet Wake Phenomena on Mixing-Sensitive Pharmaceutical Reactions, Pharm. Tech., 30:11, 66-79, (2006).
55. Lee, K. Y., J.G. Khinast and J. H. Kim (2007), Numerical modeling of contaminant transport resulting from dissolution of a coal tar pool in an experimental aquifer, Hydrogeology 15 (4), p. 705-714, DOI 10.1007/s10040-006-0144-y.
56. Chen, J.S. O N. Vassylyev, A. P. Panarello, and J. G. Khinast, (2007), Pd-Leaching and Pd-Removal in Pd/C-Catalyzed Suzuki couplings, Journal of Applied Catalysis A: General, Volume 325, Issue 1, (30), 76-86
57. Vasiliev A., LV. Golovko, V.A. Povazhny, E. Zlotnikov, J. Chen and J. G. Khinast, (2007) Functionalized nanoporous carbon as a catalyst for pharmaceutical Suzuki coupling reactions, Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 101, Issue 3, 342-347
58. Radl S. Tryggvason, G. and J.G. Khinast, (2007), Flow and Mass Transfer of Fully Resolved Deformable Bubble Swarms in non-Newtonian Fluids, AIChE J. 53 (2007) 7 , p 1861 - 1878
59. Koynov A., Tryggvason G., and J.G. Khinast, (2007), Characterization of the localized hydrodynamic shear forces and dissolved oxygen distribution in sparged bioreactors, Biotechnology and Bioengineering 92 (2), p.317-331
60. Radl S. and J.G. Khinast, (2007), Prediction of mass transfer coefficients in non-Newtonian fermentation media using first-principles methods, Biotechnology and Bioengineering 97 (5), p. 1329-1334.
61. Vasiliev A., LV. Golovko, V.A. Povazhny, E. Zlotnikov, J. Chen and J. G. Khinast, (2008) Functionalized nanoporous carbon as a catalyst for Suzuki coupling reactions, Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 101, p. 342-347
62. Woelfler H., Flock M., Sassmanshausen J., and J.G. Khinast, (2008) "The Structure-Function-Performance Relationship of Bis(cyclopentadienyl)-Based Group 4 Metallocenes - A DFT Study", Organometallics, 27 (2008), p. 5196-5202.
63. Khinast JG., Vasiliev A.N., Zlotnikov E., Riman R., (2008), Chemisorption of silane compounds on hydroxyapatites of various morphologie, Scripta Materialia, 58, p. 1039 - 1042
64. Radl, S.; Koynov, A.; Tryggvason, G.; Khinast, J. (2008), DNS-based Prediction of the Selectivity of Fast Multiphase Reactions: Hydrogenation of Nitroarenes. - Chemical Engineering Science 63 (2008) , p. 3279 - 3291
65. Gruber-Wölfler, H.; Rivillon, S.; Chabal, Y. J.; Schitter, G.; Polo, E.; Ringwald, M.; Khinast, J., (2008), UV-Induced Immobilization of Tethered Zirconocenes on H-terminated Silicon Surfaces., Chemical Communications 11, p. 1329 - 1331
66. Vasiliev, A.N., Zlotnikov, E., Khinast, J.G. and R.E. Riman, (2008), Chemisorption of silane compounds on hydroxyapatites of various morphologies. Scripta materialia 58, 1039 – 1042
67. Chen, C.-S., Krogh-Jespersen, K. and J.G. Khinast, (2008) Base- and Ligand-free Heterogeneously Catalyzed Homocoupling of Arylboronic Acids. Journal of Molecular Catalysis / A 285, 14 – 19
68. Jeanquartier, C., Schider, G., Feichtenhofer, S., Schwab, H., Schennach, R., Stettner, J., Winkler, A., Gruber-Woelfler, H., Schitter, G., Eder, R. J. P. and J.G. Khinast, (2008) A Two-step Method to Covalently Bind Biomolecules to Group-IV Semiconductors: Si(111)/1,2-Epoxy-9-decene/Esterase, Langmuir 24 (24), p. 13957-13961
69. Remy, B., Khinast, J.G., Glasser, B.J., (2008) Discrete Element Simulation of Free Flowing Grains in a Four-Bladed Mixer, AIChE J, accepted
70. Xue, L, Khinast J.G. and B. J. Glasser (2008), A parametric investigation of impregnation and drying of supported catalysts, Chemical Engineering Science 63 (18), 4517-4530
71. Vasiliev, A., Golovko, L., and V. V. Trachevsky, Gene S. Hall, Johannes G. Khinast (2008), Adsorption of heavy metal cations by organic ligands grafted on porous materials, Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 118 (1-3), 251-257
72. Radl, S., Kalvoda, E., Glasser, B.J., Khinast, J.G., (2009) Mixing Characteristics of Wet Granular Matter in a Bladed Mixer, Powder Technology, submitted
73. Remy, B., Khinast, J.G., Glasser, B.J., (2009) The Effect of Mixer Properties and Fill Level on Granular Flow in a Four-Bladed Mixer, AIChE J, 55 (8), 2035-2048
74. Vasiliev, A. N., Gulliver, E. A., Khinast, J. G., Riman, R. E. (2009) Highly dispersible polymer-coated silver nanomaterial, Elsevier Surfyce & Coating Techologies, in press.
75. Radl S., Suzzi D., and J.G. Khinast, (2009) Mixing in Bubble Swarms, submitted to AIChE J
76. Gruber-Woelfler H., Flock, M., Saßmannshausen, J., Khinast, J. (2009) The Structure-Function-Performance Relationship of Bis(cyclopentadienyl)-Based Group 4 Metallocenes - A DFT Study, Organometallics, 27, 5196-5202
77. Gruber-Woelfler, H., Eder, R.J.P., Pflueger, I. Wilding, B., Polo, E., Wagner, J., Khinast, J. G., (2009) Development of a Heterogeneous EBI-based Titanocene Catalyst for the Hydrosilylation of Imines, Chem. Commun., submitted
78. Gruber-Woelfler, H.; Flock, M.; Fischer, R. C.; Sassmannshausen, J.; Stanoeva, T.; Gescheidt, G.; Khinast, J. G. (2009) Titanocene Catalyzed Hydrosilylation of Imines: Experimental and Computational Investigations of the Catalytic Active Species, Organometallics 28, 2546-2553
79. Radl S., Tritthart T. and J.G. Khinast, (2009) A Novel Design for Hot-Melt Extrusion Pelletizers, accepted Chemical Engineering Science
80. Suzzi D., Radl S., J.G. Khinast, (2009) Modeling of the Spray-Particle Interaction of Rotary Drum Coaters (2009), submitted to Chemical Engineering Science
81. Radl, S.; Suzzi, D.; Khinast, J.: Assessment of Micro- and Mesomixing in Bubble Swarms via Simulations. - in: Chemical engineering transactions 17 (2009) , S. 507 - 512
82. Suzzi, D.; Radl, S.; Khinast, J.: Validation of Euler-Euler and Euler-Lagrange Approaches in the Simulation of Bubble Swarms. - in: Chemical engineering transactions 17 (2009) , S. 585 - 590
83. Roblegg E., Schrank S., Griesbacher M., Radl S., Zimmer A., Khinast J, (2009) Development of disintegrating pellet formulations based on Ludiflash®, submitted to European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences
84. Radl, S.; Brandl, D.; Heimburg, H.; Khinast, J.: Granular Flows - How Size Matters. - in: Tagungsband (2009), S. 38 – 41 Minisymposium Verfahrenstechnik.

9 papers are currently in preparation and will be submitted in 2009:

1. Continuous crystallization in a tubular crystallizer (Eder & Khinast)
2. Novel simulation tool of a spray dryer (Suzzi and Khinast)
3. Ontologies and FMEA for Quality by Design (Gübitz and Khinast)
4. Advanced bioreactor modelling via Lattice Boltzmann Methods 1 (Santagati and Khinast)
5. Advanced bioreactor modelling via Lattice Boltzmann Methods 2 (Sungkorn, Radl and Khinast)
6. Modeling of Particle-Fluid Interactions (Radl, Suzzi, Khinast)
7. Mixing in non-Newtonian Fluids (Hörmann, Suzzi and Khinast)
8. Euler-Euler Modeling of Reactive Transport in Fluid-Fluid Systems (Suzzi, Khinast)
9. Comprehensive Modeling of Rotary Drum Coaters including DEM, particle modelling and air simulation (Suzzi, Toschkoff and Khinast)

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS AND PUBLICATIONS IN NON-REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
> 100
INVITED TALKS
> 50
PRESENTATIONS AND TALKS:
> 150

Funding & Grants

Responsible total Funding last 5 years: > 28 million Euros

Selected grants:

09/06- 08/09	FWF (Austrian Science Foundation) PI: J. Khinast Amount: approx. $350,000 Title: Development of Heterogeneous Transition Metal Catalysts for Pharmaceutical Reactions
01/07- 12/10	FWF (Austrian Science Foundation) PI: J. Khinast Amount: approx. $340,000 Title: Bubble Swarms and Reactive Mass Transfer at Dynamic Interfaces
07/08- 06/15	FFG, SFG and Company Partners PI: J. Khinast (scientific director and leader of the consortium) Amount: approx. $ 44 million Title: Research Center for Pharmaceutical Engineering

Other grants: Ortner Reinraum Technik, Sandoz, Roche, etc.